Thank you, that really recontextualizes the quote; from my perspective it does seem like we've been rapidly sliding into chaos for >20 years, just in a different way!
I agree. There has been another software crisis of wasting our incredibly fast hardware on slow software concepts for many reasons over the last >20 years. It feels easy to apply that quote (and many other of Dijsktras pessimistic quotes) on the current landscape and while it rings true, he was not talking about the same kind of situation.